Jason “strassa2″ Strasser probably just made the ESPN footage of the main event. With the blinds at 1.2k/2.4k with a 300 ante he raised to 7k from middle position and Men Nguyen pushed all in for 20.8k more. Jason contemplated for awhile before deciding to make the call and Nguyen proudly flipped over his AA [...]

Adam “Roothlus” Levy’s (pictured left) resurrection from a short stack last night to 230k at the start of Day 3 of the Main Event has continued escalate. Levy scooped a 280k in the last level in a cutoff vs blind battle when Levy raised in late position and got reraised by his opponent out of the blind. Levy [...]

Chris “cbdr3799″ Dombrowski continued to be very active in the first half of Level 8 and PocketFives caught up to the action at his table as he was raising under the gun to 2.3K. Three players called in position - both the blinds and the button. The flop came T9J and he bet [...]

With his back pressed against a gallery of fans and their clicking digital camera’s, Leo “Superfluous Man” Wolpert was in the eye of a celebrity frenzy at the Ante Up for Africa Tournament.
Thanks to the presence of Ben Affleck, Wolpert’s table was constantly surrounded by photographers and video cameras capturing the spectacle that follows celebrities.
Although at least fifty percent of players [...]

The current chipleader in the $5K short-handed No Limit Hold Em Event is Steven “CornellFiji” Ware (pictured at left).  In addition to being an online cash game player, Ware was also one of the people who uncovered the “nionio” scandal at Ultimate Bet.  He is currently, in his words, “getting crushed by the deck” and [...]